One tool at a time, picked from a strip down the left of the stage or by its
letter, as in Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash: V selects and transforms, P is
the pen, B the brush, E the eraser. The options bar above the stage holds the
tool's settings, and the palette is a grid under the tools with the colour a
new shape gets above it, as Deluxe Paint's was.
The pen's draft is filled into the picture as it is drawn, so the edge on
screen is the pixels the shape will be. Click the first point, Enter, Esc or
leaving the pen closes it; the pen stays the tool. Editing a shape's points is
the pen ON that shape — Figma's vector edit mode — so the separate points mode
is gone: click an edge to add a point, ⌥-click one to delete it, on every key
at once so tweens keep meaning something.
The brush paints a mask, and what it will be is shown while painting: the
stroke is traced round its pixel edges, holes and all, and simplified to a
point every so many pixels of outline by the same function the saved shapes
come from. A hole is bridged into the one ring along a whole-pixel row, which
the fill never samples. Blender's Adjust Last Operation re-traces the last
stroke from what it was made of.
A shape coloured CLEAR is a knockout: its symbol is drawn into a layer of its
own and the knockout clears it, every colour or one. The eraser makes one in
the symbol it starts on, of the colour it starts on, or of every colour with
⌥. A click goes through a knockout to what shows. Previews are drawn in the
stacking context of what they will land in.
The polygon's points no longer stay behind when the shape is moved: they were
read off the saved document while the box handles read the one mid-drag.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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